Re:Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants
by lovich on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:35PM
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First off
>What remains after the corporate income tax usually winds up taxed just as your income is
In the US at least, capital gains are taxed at a different, and lower, rate than individual income.
Secondly, how do the rest of your points not apply to individuals as well. Yes the company makes money and it's taxed, and then it's paid out to shareholders and they are taxed. When I buy food at the grocery it's not some special type of dollar that can't be taxed because I'm not a corporation.
Everyone I pay out money to gets taxed as well, including banks who I pay out for loans I was given, the same way investors are taxed on a corporations income.
The only difference is that companies get to pay less because they get to write off all their expenses, while individuals have a much smaller subset of items they can expense
>What remains after the corporate income tax usually winds up taxed just as your income is
In the US at least, capital gains are taxed at a different, and lower, rate than individual income.
Secondly, how do the rest of your points not apply to individuals as well. Yes the company makes money and it's taxed, and then it's paid out to shareholders and they are taxed. When I buy food at the grocery it's not some special type of dollar that can't be taxed because I'm not a corporation.
Everyone I pay out money to gets taxed as well, including banks who I pay out for loans I was given, the same way investors are taxed on a corporations income.
The only difference is that companies get to pay less because they get to write off all their expenses, while individuals have a much smaller subset of items they can expense